Roles and Permission Enhancements in Productstream 2009

Two additional roles have been added to Productstream 2009 providing new flexibility in regards to user’s access to functionality in the system. The first role, Vault Basic Editor, removes the user’s ability to Move, Rename and Delete; or any operation that affect many people in the vault. This new role offers an excellent default role for larger organizations who desire more control to file access.

 

The second role, Productstream Basic Creator removes the user’s ability to Bump an items revision and change its lifecycle as well as removes the ability to delete an item.

Starting with Productstream 2009 roles for Vault operation and Productstream operation will no longer be automatically compounded. For example a Productstream Reviewer role doesn’t automatically have read / write access to vaulted data; this permission will have to be granted exclusive via the inclusion of one of the Vault roles. This means that when setting up Productstream Creator/Reviewers, you'll need to grant them appropriate Vault level rights.

Also new for Productstream 2009 is a dialog giving administrators the ability to adjust the way permissions are propagated to sub folders allowing for greater control and flexibility over security on folders.

-Brian Schanen